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Kelsey Parker shared details of her son Phoenix’s stillbirth, which occurred during a planned home birth
Emergency responders labeled her home a crime scene and separated her from her son shortly after his birth
Kelsey, now pregnant again, said the experience was traumatic and criticized the treatment her family received
Kelsey Parker is opening up about the first few moments after her son Phoenix’s birth.
On Monday, June 22, the podcast host and widow of The Wanted’s Tom Parker, 36, appeared on the British morning show This Morning and shared heartbreaking details about giving birth in June 2025 to her son Phoenix, who was stillborn, with her partner Will Lindsay.
“I just went into natural labor at home, and it was all so quick,” she said on the show. “My mum, my auntie and my partner Will were there, my children were there. And I ended up having Phoenix at home. He was actually a planned home birth, but obviously not how it went.”
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She then said that her midwife couldn’t get into her house, and when she gave birth to Phoenix, “you could quite clearly see that Phoenix was no longer with us.”
Kelsey and her family then called emergency services. She said that from there it was “just horrendous, really, really horrendous how I was treated, how Will was treated and how the whole family was treated was absolutely shocking.”
She explained that since there were no medical professionals at the scene to confirm the death, the paramedics ended up calling the police.
“The paramedics arrived and they took Phoenix from me, so I only ever got to hold Phoenix for nine minutes,” said Kelsey. Then the police arrived and took Phoenix away to the hospital.
She then recalled the traumatic next few moments when she was separated from her son, who was put into an ambulance and taken to the hospital, while she was directed towards the maternity ward.
“I actually pleaded with them, I said, ‘Please, one, can I be with my son, but two, please don’t put me on the maternity ward where people are giving birth to babies that I am going to hear crying,’ ” Kelsey remembered. “But they still put me on maternity.”
“When I walked out of my house, the police walked in, and they called it a crime scene,” remembered Kelsey. “So obviously, you’re worried as well. I’m going through this, and I think, ‘What do they think I’ve done?'”
“And the children were at home as well,” she said. “I said, ‘Can we watch the vocab that’s happening in this house? Because there are two children that are here that can hear everything that’s going on.'”
Host Ben Shephard then read a statement from the Met Police, who acknowledged that the behavior was inappropriate.
“We acknowledge that referring to the address as a crime scene was inappropriate, that the family could and should have been treated in a more sensitive way,” the statement read. “Learning has been implemented to prevent this happening again. A detective inspector has offered to meet with the family alongside a child bereavement nurse and arrangements are ongoing for this to take place.”
Although she hasn’t yet been ready to speak with the police, Kelsey said that she did meet with the ambulance service to discuss her care. But when she was there, she was shocked by some of their responses.
“And when I met with the ambulance service, they said they’re sorry, but their paramedics hadn’t seen a dead baby before,” she said. “So that just broke me as well. What’s my reply to that? You’re the people that I’m relying on in this situation.”
Earlier this month, Kelsey shared on Instagram that she is pregnant again, almost a year after announcing the tragic stillbirth of her son Phoenix.
“A year ago next month, we lost our beautiful baby boy, Phoenix 🤍,” she wrote in her caption. “And somehow, through all the heartbreak, it feels like Tom and Phoenix have sent us another little gift from heaven our little rainbow baby ✨.”
Kelsey shares her two older kids — Aurelia, 6, and Bodhi, 4 — with her late husband, Tom.
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